Cancer Management In Man: Detection, Diagnosis, Surgery, Radiology, Chronobiology, Endocrine Therapy (cancer Growth And Progression)

Previous volumes in this series have discussed the current progression have identified a variety of targets and strategies state of our knowledge concerning the pathophysiology of to allow these goals to be realized. This volume critically cancer growth and progression. The complexity of the in­ reviews approaches towards cancer management in man at teraction of malignant neoplasms and the host, the the levels of: detection, diagnosis, surgery, radiology, heterogeneity of malignant cell subpopulations, and the chronobiology and endocrine treatment. existence of metastatic tumor cells resistant to drug thera­ Several chapters review selected methods of cancer diag­ pies remain as significant clinical challenges to clinical on­ nosis. In addition, a variety of on-going and novel ap­ cologists. Indeed, conventional treatment regimens of che­ proaches for cancer treatment are also presented in this volume. Progress in the early detection of malignant neo­ motherapy, surgery and radiology are often ineffective for the therapy of a large variety of established metastatic can­ plasms, coupled with novel approaches for the therapy of cer in patients. When one considers the insidiousness of such neoplasms, may ultimately yield safe and well-tolerated agents for the selective therapy of solid malignancies. New progressive neoplastic growth and the emergence of con­ tinuously more aggressive and malignant cellular subpop­ therapeutic approaches, directed towards the biochemical ulations one is overwhelmed with the challenges inherent in and molecular targets identified in the earlier volumes of this series, may ultimately lead to the generation of new mo­ attempting to control malignant neoplasms. Front Matter....Pages i-x Selected Diagnostic Methods....Pages 1-15 Breast Cancer Diagnostic Imaging....Pages 16-23 Stagnation of the Treatment Quota for Certain Neoplasms: A Critical Evaluation of Contemporary Anticancer Methods....Pages 24-26 Stagnation of the Treatment Quota for Certain Neoplasms: Change in Cancer Treatment Suggested by The Analysis of Metastatic Growth....Pages 27-34 Neoplasm Staging....Pages 35-43 From Marker Bioperiodicities, Over Marker Rhythms, Toward Human Cancer Chronotherapy....Pages 44-56 Mammography....Pages 57-95 Thermography Instead of Mammography?....Pages 96-102 The Chronobiologic Pilot Study with Special Reference to Cancer Research is Chronobiology or, rather, its Neglect Wasteful?....Pages 103-133 Morphometry in Cancer Diagnostics....Pages 134-144 Principles and Practice of Surgical Oncology: The Influence of Present Day Concepts of Tumor Biology....Pages 145-148 Radiation Oncology....Pages 149-169 Hypoxic Cell Radiosensitizers....Pages 170-178 Heavy Charged Particles in Cancer Treatment....Pages 179-182 Intraoperative Radiotherapy....Pages 183-187 Oxygen Multistep Immunostimulation as a Simple Process Against Cancer Metastasis — A Process Timed to the Metastasis Promoting Leukopenic and Oxygen Deficiency Phases of Established Cancer Therapies....Pages 188-199 Cancer Multistep Therapy: Principles and State of the Art....Pages 200-219 Photosensitizers as Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tools in Oncology....Pages 220-226 Chronobiology, Radiobiology and Steps Toward the Timing of Cancer Radiotherapy....Pages 227-253 Endocrine Therapy of Breast Cancer....Pages 254-261 Selected Aspects of Biological Cancer Therapy....Pages 262-269 Immunotherapy....Pages 270-280 Back Matter....Pages 281-296